Hidden inside synthase sit shanteys and synthase, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shanteys and synthase tie for the highest Scrabble score from synthase at 14 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in synthase: one comes from rearranging its letters, and synthase itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shanteys and synthase, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in synthase produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astheny and shantey, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling synthase turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest and shyest. For points, the strongest plays are hyenas, shanty, shyest, and synths — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in synthase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, essay and hates. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including hasty, hyena and shays.
Rearranging the letters in synthase produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and easy. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including hays, they and yeah.
Unscrambling synthase turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and ash. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and shy.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in synthase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in synthase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in synthase and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
synthase is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
synthase is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing synthase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shanteys and synthase, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from synthase earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in synthase produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.